Southern Agrarians

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The Southern Agrarians were a group of early 20th-century American writers and intellectuals who championed traditional Southern rural values and criticized industrialization and modernity, most notably through their 1930 manifesto "I'll Take My Stand."

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Southern Agrarians canonical 4
Southern Agrarianism 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural movement
intellectual group
literary movement
activeInCentury 20th century
associatedWithCity Nashville, Tennessee NERFINISHED
associatedWithRegion American South NERFINISHED
country United States of America
surface form: United States
critiqued mass culture
technological progress as an end in itself
focus critique of industrial capitalism
critique of urbanization
defense of traditional Southern rural life
formedAround Vanderbilt University NERFINISHED
historicalContext interwar period
ideology agrarianism
influenced New Criticism NERFINISHED
postwar Southern literature
keyTextType manifesto
language English
literaryGenre criticism
essay
member Allen Tate NERFINISHED
Andrew Lytle NERFINISHED
Cleanth Brooks NERFINISHED
Donald Davidson NERFINISHED
Frank Lawrence Owsley NERFINISHED
Henry Blue Kline NERFINISHED
Herman Clarence Nixon NERFINISHED
James McBride Dabbs NERFINISHED
John Crowe Ransom NERFINISHED
John Gould Fletcher NERFINISHED
Lyle H. Lanier NERFINISHED
Nash Burger NERFINISHED
Robert Penn Warren NERFINISHED
Stark Young NERFINISHED
movementAlsoKnownAs Fugitives and Agrarians NERFINISHED
notableWork I'll Take My Stand NERFINISHED
opposedTo industrialization
modernity
positionOnEconomy preference for small-scale agriculture
positionOnSociety emphasis on community and tradition
precededBy Fugitive Poets NERFINISHED
publicationYearOfNotableWork 1930
relatedField American studies
literary criticism
relatedMovement Southern Renaissance NERFINISHED
theme anti-modernism
conservatism
regionalism

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John Crowe Ransom memberOf Southern Agrarians
John Gould Fletcher memberOf Southern Agrarians
Southern Renaissance influencedBy Southern Agrarians
this entity surface form: Southern Agrarianism
Allen Tate movement Southern Agrarians
Allen Tate memberOf Southern Agrarians